Quotes about jesus
jesus believe mean
John Piper Not to abide in Jesus’ love would mean that we stop believing that we are loved by Jesus. We look at our circumstances - perhaps persecution or disease or abandonment - and we conclude that we are not loved by Jesus anymore. That’s the opposite of abiding in the love of Jesus. So abiding in his love means continuing to believe, moment by moment, that we are loved.
jesus worship true-god
John Piper Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.
jesus eye years
John Piper And in these last hours, the lifetime of this year passes before my eyes, and I face the inevitable question: Did I live it well? Will Jesus Christ, the righteous judge, say “Well done, good and faithful servant”?
jesus believe rose
John Piper The Gospel is the news that Jesus Christ, the Righteous One, died for our sins and rose again, eternally triumphant over all his enemies, so that there is now no condemnation for those who believe, but only everlasting joy.
jesus america one-day
John Piper One day America and all its presidents will be a footnote in history, but the kingdom of Jesus will never end.
jesus children followers
John Piper Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus.
jesus suffering pleasure
John Piper Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.
jesus teaching giving
John Piper Jesus' teaching in general [implies] that happy and fulfilling sexual relations in marriage depend on each partner aiming to give satisfaction to the other. If it is the joy of each to make the other happy, a hundred problems will be solved before they happen.
jesus godly essence
John Piper The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
jesus important christ
John Piper Seeing & savoring Jesus Christ is the most important seeing and savoring you'll ever do.
jesus people blind
John Piper Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see.
jesus doe spirit
John Piper Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.
jesus jerusalem certain-death
John Piper Jerusalem meant one thing for Jesus: certain death.
jesus events-in-history way
John Piper The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!
jesus people heaven
John Piper There will be no people in heaven who want to be around their things more than Jesus.
jesus giving joy
John Piper The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally by faith in the sin-forgiving death and hope-giving resurrection of Jesus Christ.
jesus heart grace
John Piper When you see Jesus as your Treasure, the Spirit has blown through your heart.
jesus purpose life-is
John Piper The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.
jesus children taken
John Piper The offspring of the woman, Jesus Christ, came into the world to save women who have dethroned God, taken His place, defined personhood as tissue, and willed the death of their own child. It can't be reversed, but it can be forgiven. That is why Christ died.
jesus easter achievement
John Piper The point is not that the resurrection is the price paid for our sins. The point point is that the resurrection proves the death of Jesus is an all-sufficient price. If Jesus did not rise from the dead, then his death was a failure, God did not vindicate his sin-bearing achievement, and we are still in our sins.
jesus differences forever
John Piper The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus.
jesus church lions
John Piper Servanthood does not nullify leadership; it defines it. Jesus does not cease to be the Lion of Judah when He becomes the lamblike servant of the church.
jesus passion names
John Piper When you are deeply peaceful and confident that, because of Christ, God will bring you safely to his eternal kingdom and be the all-satisfying Treasure of your life forever, then you are free to see the truth, and love the truth, and speak the truth no matter what, and joyfully spread a passion for the truth whose name is Jesus.
jesus mean treasure
John Piper This assumes that the glory of Christ is our highest treasure, not health, wealth, family or even life. So preaching must continually show not that Jesus is the means to prosperity but that he is better than prosperity.
jesus book joy
John Piper There is a warning. The path of God-exalting joy will cost you your life. Jesus said, “Whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.” In other words, it is better to lose your life than to waste it. If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full. This is not a book about how to avoid a wounded life, but how to avoid a wasted life. Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.
jesus watches suspense
Martin Luther Christ designed that the day of his coming should be hid from us, that being in suspense, we might be as it were upon the watch.
jesus blessed thinking
Martin Luther Our suffering is not worthy the name of suffering. When I consider my crosses, tribulations, and temptations, I shame myself almost to death, thinking what are they in comparison of the sufferings of my blessed Savior Christ Jesus.
jesus heart hands
Martin Luther Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you see the nails driven through his hands, be sure that you are pondering, and when the thorns pierce his brow, know that they are your evil thoughts.
jesus names grace
Martin Luther When I was abandoned by everybody, in my greatest weakness, trembling and afraid of death, when I was persecuted by this wicked world, then I often felt most surely the divine power in this name, Jesus Christ... So, by God's grace, I will live and die for that name.
jesus littles savior
Martin Luther If you see yourself as a "little sinner" you will inevitably see Jesus as a "little savior".
jesus dying scripture
Martin Luther Jesus Christ never died for our good works. They were not worth dying for. But he gave himself for our sins, according to the Scriptures.
jesus mean eye
Martin Luther To turn one's eyes away from Jesus means to turn them to the Law.